How the War on Terror has become a war on civil liberties

Much remains to be resolved concerning the confusion arrising out of 9-11, but there is little confusion on the less of civil rights.

No matter what your view is on the destruction of the WTC on 9-11-2001, the US has changed markedly as a direct result.

The 9-11 Truth Organization has questions regarding tower 7 that collapsed even though no planes struck it and there were only minor fires that could have easily been doused.

This is tower 7 just before it collapsed mysteriously.

The collapse of tower 1 shortly after it was struck. Tower 2 collapsed later.

G. W. Bush was in office and in Florida when the WTC was attacked. The various acts were passed shortly after 9-11.

Barack Obama took over where Bush left off and declared that he was going to "Stay the course" of G. W. Bush. So far this has been born out.

Take a good look at this as it is now just an interesting piece of history that has little application in real life.

America has lost a lot as a result of the wer on terror.

September
11th, 2001 shall be a day that lives in infamy; not the same as the
attack on Pearl Harbor which became a day of infamy as well. For in
that day of infamy; December 7th, 1941, the US went to war
against Japan in the Pacific theater. On September 11th, 2001, the
World Trade Center was attacked according to most, by terrorists
directed by Osama Bin Laden in two separate attacks using commercial
jets. Some dispute this, mainly on the grounds of the mysterious
collapse of tower seven several hours later despite the fact that
there were only a few minor fires and that it was never hit, even by
major debris falling from the collapse of towers one and two.
Surrounding buildings that were never struck by planes and not a part
of the World Trade Center sustained much more damage from falling
debris, but did not collapse, despite their greater age. Thus there
are questions surrounding exactly what went on at the World Trade
Center. Thousands of people trapped in towers one and two died when
they imploded and collapsed. In addition, the strike on the Pentagon
was suspicious as no heavy jet engines were found at the site of the
impact and the hole left was too small to fit the commercial jet that
allegedly flew and crashed into it. Other anomalies abound and have
fed a lot of questions and ideas of what exactly occurred. Out of
this was born a movement; the 911 Truth Organization. Despite the
questions and doubts, a far more sinister event began to unfold as
the war on terror became a fact of our lives and the lives of people
around the world. This sinister act was the systematic dismantling of
US civil liberties and rights protected in the past under the Bill of
Rights, its amendments, the US Constitution and the loss of habeas
corpus. This occurred in drafting and passing of the Patriot Act, the
Homeland Securities Acts and following amendments to these. But this
is not the end of it as lately the House of Representatives and the
Senate quietly passed the extradition act that gives the US police
under Interpol, The FBI, CIA, US security specialists and the
military to extradite anyone from around the world and to imprison
them without charge for life and no chance for a hearing or even
rights under the Miranda Act. However, people were extradited long
before the act was even considered and drafted. Its existence makes
the process easier and legal under US law/

It did
not take long to pass the Patriot Act, which passed with a strong
majority in the House of Congress mere months later. To some this
suggests foreknowledge. By that time, troops were being sent to add
to those already in Iraq and Afghanistan. About a year later, the
Homeland Securities Act passed. Both acts in tandem give sweeping
powers to the CIA, the FBI, police and security. These powers include
search, seizure and arrest without warrant and detention without
charge for an indefinite period under suspicion of terror. The CIA
and FBI can wiretap and snoop into e-mails, mail and private records
such as medical, financial and tax records to look for clues. Whether
guilty or not, you affairs are all under continued scrutiny. The
House of Congress has also issued directives as to what constitutes
foreign and domestic terrorism. Terrorism is defined as anything like
computer hacking, protesting sensitive issues, using the word terror
or terrorism or discussing matters like bombs or logging onto sites
that are considered a possible terrorist threat, breaking censorship
or penetrating "no go" zones. The acts include a strong
dose of censorship which is now becoming pervasive in many areas of
life.

In
addition, security is being beefed up by installing cameras in as
many public places so that everyone can be watched. In Britain, which
is an ally in the war on terror, there are some 1.5 million cameras
installed. The average person gets photographed and filmed 300 times
a day. This is what made the capture of their "terrorists"
so easy. America is proposing to have ten times as many in every
major city, within transit stations, malls, street corners,
intersections, major highways, major public areas and in sensitive
locations all tied to a central security station, the police, CIA and
FBI. George Orwell's 1984 has come home to roost! The 2010 Olympics
in Canada boasted a billion dollar plus security tag. All of this is
so "terrorists are kept out". Vancouver now boasts cameras
everywhere including on mobile rapid transit vehicles now that the
Olympics are history, still in place despite promises to the
contrary. So the US concern over security is spreading everywhere.

In
response to the Patriot Act and Homeland Securities Act, other allied
governments have passed censorship on freedom of assembly and free
speech with consequences of big fines and/or imprisonment. Some
people have already been affected by this law that is suddenly all
over the news at the news caster's risk. As a final blow, when the
word on the outsourcing of torture and the request for habeas corpus
was called for, George Bush had laws passed to exclude the right and
access to habeas corpus, which guaranteed people taken into detention
the right to a hearing before the highest power whether president or
king. Habeas corpus originated in 1215 CE, within the context of the
Magna Carta so that subjects of the king of England could get a
hearing after being arrested on charges by the king. It has had a
rocky history and the loss of habeas corpus now is another loss where
people are not even allowed a hearing. Thus if you are hauled away in
a police sweep and taken to torture, the arrested person cannot even
call for habeas corpus. This occurred because someone did and Bush
stuck it down with a new amendment. They now don't even have the
right to remain silent. Now we are told in the face of the current
economic crisis, that we are going to have to accept more and deeper
sacrifices. The loss of income, rights, freedoms and habeas corpus is
already enough! What is to come now?

Now that
we are in an economic collapse, there is an upwelling of concern and
protest and certainly a lot of questions about how finances were
handled. Certainly hundreds of billions were poured into the war on
terror at home and abroad, affected mainly in the foreign theater.
Speculation on the market also fueled the crisis. So now there is a
new sphere where blame is no doubt being placed on the shoulders of
Osama Bin Laden and others, due to the war on terror. But the war on
terror is also now strongly rooted in the domestic sphere where
everyone lives in a state of fear. We used to say that what has been
described above is classic of China, Korea and the former USSR.
Today, the US has become a police state every bit as vicious as
anything in these stated dictatorships. We now live in a country
where people can be feasibly arrested at the whim and leisure of the
state for an alleged act actual or perceived. How then can we
distinguish a so called free nation from one of these dictatorships
that we have heard so much about in the news and abhorred in the
past?

In the
past, we have called this fascism, Nazism, Maoism and Stalinism, and
now it is American! But some are not taking this sitting down. There
are protests and demonstrations over this direction. Some are
deceived to the point where they think they can gain liberty by
losing freedoms. For some people it already too late as innocent
people swept up in anti-terrorist fervor have died from torture. Some
sources tell us that the US now contains some 800 concentration camps
where alleged terrorists and people made homeless from Hurricane
Katrina now live. This has been going on for many years and is
usually out-sourced to foreign countries under the influence of the
US. Abu Ghraib
prison and
Guantanamo Bay
are not exceptions, but the rule now. People have been swept up in
Canada under US directives and out-sourced to torture. One was found
innocent and the Canadian government was forced to repatriate the
person and award millions in damages. The direction that the US has
been going has been going for almost a decade. The events of
September 11th, 2001 seem to be a ready made event that was used to
bring an end to civil liberties. Certainly the acts used for such
were passed rapidly and the peoples' rights have evaporated as a
consequence. The war in terror has become a war on the people and
their civil liberties, their rights and even to have habeas corpus!

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Lucas

6 years ago

"WTC vs. UMTS" or can a microwave explode iron?!

An UMTS-protectionfield against hackers, realised through an electromagnetic energie at the steelconstruction, liquefied the iron, like cooking water in a microwave, and was like the northpol for the autopilots. Finally in a microwave paper will not start to burn like you can see at the pictures.

Your hub is a testimony to the fact that 9/11 and recently 26/11 in India have exposed how fragile the world security is. Gone are the days to take security and safety for granted. Long dose of complacency in US and the West based on their "developed world" status has been badly bruised by 9/11. The reaction (or over-reaction) is showing as panic everywhere.

The moot question is: Is the world safer now than it was 10 years ago?

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